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Mahatma Gandhi along with Rajendra Prasad and Abul Kalam Azad goes through the agenda of subject committee meeting of Congress Party in Bombay on October 24, 1934.

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1st March 1938: Members of the Indian National Congress on the dais at Haripura. From left to right Darbar Gopoldas Dasai, Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) and Subhas Chandra Bose. (Getty Images)

At the conference in New Delhi where Lord Mountbatten disclosed Britain's partition plan for India (left to right) Indian nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru, adviser to Mountbatten Lord Ismay, Viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten, and President of the All-India Muslim League Muhammad Ali Jinnah. (Getty Images)

Although the families of both Jinnah and Gandhi had once lived just about 40 miles or so apart in Kathiawar (Gujarat), this adjacency of their places of origin did nothing to bring their politics close together. (Getty Images)